The Weather Thread | Severe Flooding at Carolina Beach, Tornado Warnings in Eastern NC

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Guess we still have a month to get through the peak of hurricane season, but so far the forecast for this season has been a bust. Why I hardly pay attention to the long range predictions for hurricane season and winter here.
 
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Temperatures hovered above 100 degrees Fahrenheit along parts of the California coast early Friday, creating unbearable conditions past midnight as officials warned that the excessive heat would last through the weekend.

The nighttime heat ranged from the upper 80s to the 100s across the coasts of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, according to the National Weather Service.

Such high temperatures happen at that time of night there about once a year, Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Oxnard, Calif., said in a phone interview.

“We’re not seeing a ton of release at night,” he said, adding that temperatures remained high elsewhere in the region early Friday, hovering in the high 70s and lower 80s in more populated areas. “That’s absolutely concerning.” …

Warm nights can be deadly. Deaths can climb 10 to 50 percent on days when the nights are hot, studies have shown, because it becomes harder for people to cool down after a hot day. Outdoor workers, older people, young children, the sick and people who are homeless are especially vulnerable. …”

www.nytimes.com

100 Degrees at Midnight: California Coast Swelters in ‘Concerning’ Heat

Temperatures in the region were forecast to remain high into the weekend, with more than 31 million people under excessive heat warnings.
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Is CantoreFever okay? Hurricane Francine is about to crash the Louisiana coast at any moment.

We need to put out an APB on CF!!!
 
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Francine has made landfall in southern Louisiana in the Parish of
Terrebonne, about 30 miles south-southwest of Morgan City, as a
Category 2 hurricane. Maximum sustained winds are estimated to be
near 100 mph
 
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This reminds me of being on St. John in the USVI in 1989 before Hurricane Hugo*** hit.

Once EVERYONE knew the storm was hitting, mindsets changed.

We’d been in a house on the water on Chocolate Hole. It faced south/southeast and was all glass facing the water and Hugo was coming from that direction.

We went and rented a condo up high overlooking Cruz Bay….facing Northwest…..little did we know about Hugo’s winds as it moved across us.

The condo had these great, big mahogany shutters that could cover the windows. They closed with those itty-bitty little hooks used to close screen doors.

We found 10-12 pallets under the pool deck. We busted them apart for the wood planks. We closed the shutters and screwed the salvaged planks to the shutters. Oh, was the guy from the condo development pissed at us……we’d put holes in the mahogany shutters…..Our “handy work” held most of the shutters closed during Hugo. We’d run out of planks and screws and the wind destroyed shutters on two rooms and those shutters shattered the windows on those rooms…..not just the glass….the wood frames……nothing like hurricane-like winds in a bedroom after the wind blew out/in the windows.

We were in a little development of 12 condos. Two were occupied. Ours. The one above us. They’d done little to secure their shutters. They spent the bulk of the night in the bathroom (smallest room, smallest window).

Rule #1 - get the fuck out if a hurricane is coming.

Rule #2 - see Rule #1
 
Zoo_View said:
This reminds me of being on St. John in the USVI in 1989 before Hurricane Hugo*** hit.

Once EVERYONE knew the storm was hitting, mindsets changed.

We’d been in a house on the water on Chocolate Hole. It faced south/southeast and was all glass facing the water and Hugo was coming from that direction.

We went and rented a condo up high overlooking Cruz Bay….facing Northwest…..little did we know about Hugo’s winds as it moved across us.

The condo had these great, big mahogany shutters that could cover the windows. They closed with those itty-bitty little hooks used to close screen doors.

We found 10-12 pallets under the pool deck. We busted them apart for the wood planks. We closed the shutters and screwed the salvaged planks to the shutters. Oh, was the guy from the condo development pissed at us……we’d put holes in the mahogany shutters…..Our “handy work” held most of the shutters closed during Hugo. We’d run out of planks and screws and the wind destroyed shutters on two rooms and those shutters shattered the windows on those rooms…..not just the glass….the wood frames……nothing like hurricane-like winds in a bedroom after the wind blew out/in the windows.

We were in a little development of 12 condos. Two were occupied. Ours. The one above us. They’d done little to secure their shutters. They spent the bulk of the night in the bathroom (smallest room, smallest window).

Rule #1 - get the fuck out if a hurricane is coming.

Rule #2 - see Rule #1
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Wow. That must have been terrifying.
 
The forecast yesterday had a 20% chance of showers for today. Now it's a 70% chance of rain and it's a monsoon outside. How can they miss it that badly in less than 24 hours?
 
Hurricanes (Francine) that pass east of Texas heat things up. 100°F and high humidity here yesterday.

8 should be a good rainmaker for drought affected areas.
 
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